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    The new AFK farm

    I don't know if it has anything to do with people just waiting for the new season, or just being bored by the game, but this week, playing dominions with one of my friends has been an very taxing thing, and made the game not even fun to play anymore.

    So let's put things in perspective: at launch, we had people farming AFK by just not moving and staying at spawnpoint, which would penalize the team they were in. To counter that, ubi integrated the auto-kick for inactivity feature.

    So people adapted, and used scripts that would make their character throw a light every X seconds, that way they would stay in the match, throwing lights at walls in spawn without getting kicked. But ubi seemignly found a way to patch this too.

    So this brings us to today, and people doing something else: they play, but don't participate in the match. All they do is go to one point, either a cap point of the minion lane, and there, they just far points by staying on it. Usually there between 2 and 3 people doing that, and they'll either avoid any fighting by running away and rotating to another point, or just gank the poor soul that tries to get them off of there. The sad thing is, you don't win by only holding one point.
    So what ends up happening is, you have 2 or 3 guys in a team who will camp at one point, or flat out refuse to fight and run away, for the entire match, leaving only 1 or 2 guys in a team actually playing. This is extremly frustrating, as you can't quit because of ubi's quit penalty. So you are forced to play a 1v4 or 2v4, because some guys on your team decided to just not play.

    At this point, I would rather ubisoft take away the leave penalty, as we get people leaving anyways, and allow us to quit those cancerous match. Especially since this kind of behaviour has been increasingly presing recently, on top of the servers sharting, and puting us in a 1 player and 3 AIs vs 4 players, server, or 1P & 3AI vs 1P and 3AI, or sometimes even just 1P and only AIs in the match. But you can't quit because quit penalty.

    There is a report option for non participation, but we don't have any indication on if people are getting banned or not. Maybe implement a widget like in siege that tells you when people get banned? Or a community post to aknowledge these issues? At least so that we know that something is being done


    What about you guys? Anyone else experienced this? Any other suggestion?
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    I don't necessarily think this is AFK as much as it is a poor tactic. I've been in several games as of late where my team members have done this. Some I've noticed are running in squads and some just like to follow other teammates so they're not killed so easily. When I see 3 players capping while I'm running around dying, I usually just regress and start emoting at the spawn point until the match is over. I've only seen one time where I was on the team where this tactic was successful. I was surprised they won while I was emoting away. I stayed around for the next match and luckily wasn't on their team. Needless to say, they lost that match.
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